Not often that I listen to a BBC Radio drama, but I couldn't miss "Moving Music" by Sarah Wooley.
To quote from the website:
"Philip Glass & Steve Reich are best known as pioneers of minimalist music. What is less well known is that they ran a removal firm together to make ends meet while they were making their way as young composers in the 1960s".
So, a drama in which you hear Steve & Phil move furniture.
It was about the how and why they fell out at the end of the 1960's after working, musically and other wise, for a productive period in which they found their styles & formed their own groups to play in non standard venues.
There was a disclaimer at the beginning of the play saying that some of it is guesswork. Was it fiction that Philip dropped a piano on Steve's foot? Why did Philip drop Steve's name from his piece "Two Pages (for Steve Reich)"? Not sure that anyone knows for sure. As always with these things the characters make statements that predict forthcoming events in their lives to a degree that never happens in real life.
Interesting little piece, using brief extracts from there music in between scenes. Justin Salinger did a very good impression of Philip Glass.
What an extraordinary idea for a drama. Wish I'd heard it.
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